Article

The silent extinction: climate change and the potential hybridization-mediated extinction of endemic high-mountain plants

2015-08-01

Abstract excerpt

Most global-warming models predict an altitudinal movement of plants. This upward migration of lowland species will surely result in contact with related species inhabiting high-mountain ecosystems. We propose that an overlooked consequence of this upland movement is the possibility for interspecific hybridization between narrowly endemic alpine plants and widely distributed lowland plants. Genetic swamping due to...

Topics

Open a Topic to create a Post that cites this publication.

Identifiers and source

Literature Corpus work: d00ffff1-c02a-5b55-8f56-32fa794a1e71
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-015-0909-5

Open publication

Related research

Semantic proximity does not establish scientific evidence.

Click a neighbor to travelStep 1 · 12 closest

The silent extinction: climate change and the potential hybridization-mediated extinction of endemic high-mountain plantsDOI 10.1007/s10531-015-0909-5Read

Neophytes may promote hybridization and adaptations to a changing planetSemantic proximity Read

Alternative mechanisms of range expansion are associated with different changes of evolutionary potential.Semantic proximity Read

Consequences of Hybridization in Mammals: A Systematic Review.Semantic proximity Read

Tracking a genetic signal of extinction-recolonization events in a neotropical tree species: Vouacapoua americana Aublet in French Guiana.Semantic proximity Read

Anthropocene refugia in Patagonia: A macrogenetic approach to safeguarding the biodiversity of flowering plantsSemantic proximity Read

Revisiting a classic case of introgression: hybridization and gene flow in Californian sunflowers.Semantic proximity Read

Long-term persisting hybrid swarm and geographic difference in hybridization pattern: genetic consequences of secondary contact between two Vincetoxicum species (Apocynaceae-Asclepiadoideae).Semantic proximity Read

Pleistocene origin and population history of a neoendemic alpine butterfly.Semantic proximity Read

Ecological speciation in Nolina parviflora (Asparagaceae): lacking spatial connectivity along of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt.Semantic proximity Read

Origin of African Physacanthus (Acanthaceae) via wide hybridization.Semantic proximity Read

Population subdivision and hybridization in a species complex of Gentiana in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau.Semantic proximity Read

Genetic consequences of climate change for northern plants.Semantic proximity Read